Dr. Aaron Sparks
Assistant Professor
Irby Hall, Suite #217
(501) 450-3412
Educational Background:
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017
MA, Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014
MPA, Public Administration, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, 2011
BS, Biology, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, 2007
Courses:
PSCI 1330, U.S. Government & Politics
PSCI 3320, Environmental Policy
PSCI 4340, Seminar in Political Behavior
Selected Publications:
McGlynn, Morgan, and Aaron C. Sparks. 2024. Climate change policy development: A multiple streams analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The Forum, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 177-204, https://doi.org/10.1515/for-2024-2014.
Sparks, Aaron C., Nicole Cason, and Sara Arora. 2023. “Show and Tell Advocacy: How advocates convince policymakers by showing them the work they do”, Frontiers in Political Science, vol. 5, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2023.1123172.
Kuehl, Colin, Aaron C. Sparks, Heather Hodges, and Eric Smith. 2023. Exploring Sustainability Literacy: Developing and Assessing a Bottom-Up Measure of What Students Know About Sustainability”, Frontiers in Sustainability, vol. 4, no. 54, https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2023.1167041.
Lange, Florian, Sebastian Berger, Katarzyna Byrka, Adrian Brügger, Laura Henn, Aaron C. Sparks, Kristian S. Nielson, and Jan Urban. 2023. “Beyond self-reports: A call for more behavior in environmental psychology.” Journal of Environmental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.101965.
Usry, Kaye, Jason Husser, and Aaron C. Sparks. 2022. “I’m not a scientist, I Know What I See: Hurricane experience and climate change acceptance”, Social Science Quarterly, vol. 103, no. 5, https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13196.
Sparks, Aaron C., Phillip J. Ehret, and Cameron Brick. 2022. “Measuring pro-environmental orientation: Testing and building scales”, Journal of Environmental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101780.